Kevin chords by Macklemore And Ryan Lewis

Chords with lyrics

Capo 3rd fret


[Verse 1: Macklemore]
    C majorC
I seen pain, I felt the losses
     FF
Attended funerals and seen coffins
         E minorEm
Twenty-one years old, an angel was lost here
   D5D5
Wings clipped by the grip of 80 milligram sniffs of
C majorC
Oxycontin everyday through the nostrils
FF
Never went away, never does it stop there
E minorEm
Death a line or two away and a couple tall cans
D5D5
 Cause you never know when God is gonna call, man
C majorC
Precious, what we all share
FF
I said peace at 5:30, the next time that I saw him
      E minorEm
Was in the hands of the pallbearer
             D5D5
What if I would've never gone and dropped him off there?
               C majorC
Blaming myself, in hysterics, screaming "It's not fair!"
              FF
Twenty-one years old with a book of rhymes he was gonna recite to the globe
   E minorEm
Only thing to numb the pain besides that shit in his nose
    D5D5
He was gonna quit tomorrow, we're all gonna quit tomorrow
NC
Just get us through the weekend, and then Monday follows
NC
Then it's Wednesday, then it's "fuck it, I'm already feeling hollow"
NC
Might as well go crack a seal and might as well go chug a bottle
NC
Might as well go pop a pill and go and band-aid that problem
   C majorC
And escape this world, vacate this world
   FF
Cause I hate myself
               E minorEm  D5D5
No praying's gonna cure this pain

[Chorus 1: Leon Bridges]
    C majorC   FF            E minorEm      D5D5
Doctor please, give me a dose of the American Dream
  C majorC              FF
Put down the pen and look in my eyes
E minorEm             D5D5
 We're in the waiting room and something ain't right
C majorC   FF   E minorEm          D5D5
        All this is on you, we're overprescribed


[Verse 2: Macklemore]
C majorC
 For me and Kev
  FF
He went up in jail, institutions are dead
     E minorEm
And with our lives, we play Russian Roulette
      D5D5
And try to find a life where we could be content
     C majorC
Cause for us, we're just trying to minimize
  FF
The fear of being alive
      E minorEm
And now my little brother is in the sky
    D5D5
From a pill that a doctor prescribed
          C majorC
That a drug dealing billion dollar industry supplied
       FF
And the cops never go and profile at night
        E minorEm
Yeah, the, the, the orange plastic with the white top they sell to you
D5D5
Has us looking for the answers and that instead of you
C majorC
Quick fix, whatever'll do, we just gonna neglect the truth
FF
Because a doctor with a license played God and said it's cool
NC
Played God and said it's cool
NC
But me? I don't blame Kev or his mom freebasing while pregnant with him
NC
I blame the pharmacy companies
NC
And country that spends trillions fighting the war they supplying themselves
NC
Politicians and business and jail
NC
Public defenders and judges who fail
NC
Look at Kevin, look at Kevin
NC
Now he's wrapped in plastic
NC
First dealer was his mom's medicine cabinet
NC
Got anxiety, better go and give him a Xanax
NC
Focus, give him Adderall, sleep, give him Ambien
NC
'Til he's walking 'round the city looking like a mannequin
NC
Ups and downs, shooting up prescriptions you're handing him
NC
So America, is it really worth it? I'm asking you


[Chorus 2: Leon Bridges]
    C majorC   E minorEm            A minorAm      FF
Doctor please, give me a dose of the American Dream
  C majorC              E minorEm
Put down the pen and look in my eyes
A minorAm             FF
 We're in the waiting room and something ain't right
C majorC   E minorEm  A minorAm          FF
        All this is on you, we're overprescribed

C majorC A minorAm C majorC FF

[Outro: Leon Bridges]
C majorC           A minorAm
 Doctor, your medicine and your methods
C majorC           FF
 Can't cure my disease without killing me
C majorC         A minorAm
 You're killing me, you're killing me
C majorC          FF
 You're killing me, you're killing me
C majorC           A minorAm
 Doctor, your medicine and your methods
C majorC           FF
 Can't cure my disease without killing me
C majorC          FF
 You're killing me, you're killing me
E minorEm         FF
 You're killing me, you're killing me